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"De Camptown Races" or "Gwine to Run All Night" (nowadays popularly known as "Camptown Races") is a folk song by American Romantic composer Stephen Foster. It was published in February 1850 by F. D. Benteen and was introduced to the American mainstream by Christy's Minstrels , eventually becoming one of the most popular folk/ Americana tunes of ...
"Run, Nigger, Run" (Roud 3660) is a folk song first documented in 1851. It is known from numerous versions. It is known from numerous versions. Responding to the rise of slave patrols in the slave-owning southern United States, the song is about an unnamed black man who attempts to run from a slave patrol and avoid capture.
The phrase "Run And Tell That" is traced back to African American religious and secular songs. Literally, it means: "to exhort someone to go quickly and give information or news to another person or persons", however in this context it is more like "declaring to your adversary you will succeed in the near future, and that he or she should let the world world know that fact". [1]
Ten Broeck won the race before a record crowd of 30,000. The song commonly states that Ten Broeck "was a big bay horse", and although he was a bay, he was "very compactly built". [ 6 ] The song refers to a fatal outcome, which did not in fact occur; Mollie McCarty lived nearly five more years, winning multiple races and producing three foals.
"Run" is a song written by Anthony Smith and Tony Lane, and recorded by American country music artist George Strait. It was released in September 2001 as the lead single from Strait's album The Road Less Traveled .
"Run, rabbit, run" is a lyric in the Pink Floyd song Breathe, possibly reflection of Roger Waters' anti-war sentiments. In 1980, sung by Fozzie Bear ( Frank Oz ) in Season 4, Episode 21 of The Muppet Show , as he attempts to protect a colony of rabbits, which he had accidentally conjured while attempting to perform the pulling a rabbit from a ...
"The Race Is On" is a song written by Don Rollins [1] (not to be confused with the Don Rollins who co-wrote "It's Five O'Clock Somewhere" for Alan Jackson and Jimmy Buffett) and made a hit on the country music charts by George Jones and on the pop and easy listening charts by the unrelated Jack Jones. George Jones's version was the first single ...
"Run for Cover" is a song by British girl group Sugababes. Group members Siobhan Donaghy , Keisha Buchanan , and Mutya Buena wrote the song with Jony Lipsey, Cameron McVey, and Paul Simm for the band's debut album One Touch (2000).